{"id":18119,"date":"2013-05-02T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18119"},"modified":"2013-05-02T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:25:56","slug":"why-well-never-meet-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/02\/why-well-never-meet-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We’ll Never Meet Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why We’ll Never Meet Aliens<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t think too much about aliens, but I do dislike most space-related sci-fi movies for much of the same reasons.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Why We’ll Never Meet Aliens I don’t think too much about aliens, but I do dislike most space-related sci-fi movies for much of the same reasons.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[2462,655,53],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-aliens","tag-science","tag-space","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11046,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/06\/avpr-aliens-vs-predator-requiem\/","url_meta":{"origin":18119,"position":0},"title":"AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I went to see \"AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem\". 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